A Comparison of Two Newspapers
‘Media’ helps us to know more about what’s happening around us. There
are many types of media; newspapers are one among them. Newspapers can
be classified into two types: tabloids and broadsheets. Tabloids are
known as “the popular press”. They are often biased and contain
gossips about personalities and are less serious. The sentence
structure and vocabulary are simple. Therefore, they are mostly read
by the working class with minimum qualifications. In contrast to the
tabloids, broadsheets are aimed at more educated audience and are more
serious than tabloids. They are read by audience with professional
jobs are people educated in the university. Broadsheets cover
political and educational news which the tabloids don’t cover up. They
also cover foreign items. Broadsheets generally cover the news from
all angles. The vocabulary and sentence structure are very complex.
This essay will compare a broadsheet and a tabloid about Jack Straw’s
decision to extradite Pinochet.
The background situation to General Augusto Pinochet's extradition is
that he killed and tortured thousand of people during his rule in
Chile. Pinochet was the military leader of Chile. He ruled the country
ruthlessly, crushing all his oppositions. In 1998 Pinochet came to
Britain to have a back operation in Harley Street. Many people were
outraged by his visit, including many Chileans who lost their families
during his tyrannous rule. On December 1998, Jack Straw, the home
secretary announced that Pinochet's extradition to Spain should go
forward. Many people were delighted with this decision, especially the
human rights campaigner...
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...he Guardian" so
the sentence structure and the vocabulary is very simple in "The Sun".
The language is unbiased in "The Guardian". It doesn’t support one
side. There has been no words or sentences used to sympathise or
oppose the General. It tells us the fact and not rumours. It doesn’t
support one side. On the other hand, the language is biased in "The
Sun". It only supports the General and oppose to the decision. It only
focuses on one side. The phrases like “broke down in tears, freedom
were dashed, 83-year-old” were used to sympathise for the General. So
the language in "The Sun" is biased, whereas it is unbiased in "The
Guardian". It is easy to manipulate the reader through "The Sun"
because it is read by millions of people. The media tells us about
what the audience want and also tells the audience what to think.
I am going to record the number of letters in each of the first 100
With this increase, newspaper owners and editors needed new bait to reel in its subscribers. The newspaper editors wanted to replace ordinary town gossip with gossip about the latest events in the city. Therefore, in newspapers they placed the most shocking events and kept the rural minds drooling for more. As newspaper circulation grew, the large newspaper depended much less on political parties and could now even challenge them. Newspapers played on the new human interest, the concern of the wealthy with the affairs of those below them, status-wise.
...cy. For this reason, it is clear that the media should not engage in any activity aimed at taking sides when dealing with the policy at hand. Journalists should always monitor all the policies and arguments from the foundation so as to ensure that they have left an opportunity of judgment from the public. This will ensure that public policy has been promoted without any form of discrimination or support (Abelson, 2006).
Siebert, Peterson, and Schramm’s “Four Theories of the Press” argue that “the press always takes on the form and coloration of the social and political structures within which it operates” (p. 1). The book supports this argument by discussing authoritarian, libertarian, social responsibility, and Soviet-totalitarian theories of the press.
lots of text, so this is another vital area of study. I will also look
Ensalaco, Mark. Chile under Pinochet: Recovering the Truth. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvannia Press, 2000.
398).It is also stated that news divisions reduced their costs, and raised the entertainment factor of the broadcasts put on air. (p. 400). Secondly, the media determines its sources for stories by putting the best journalists on the case and assign them to areas where news worthy stories just emanates. (p.400). Third, the media decides how to present the news by taking the most controversial or relevant events and compressing them into 30 second sound-bites. (p.402). finally, the authors also explain how the media affects the general public. The authors’ state “The effect of one news story on public opinion may be trivial but the cumulative effect of dozens of news stories may be important. This shows a direct correlation between public opinions and what the media may find “relevant”. (Edwards, Wattenberg, Lineberry, 2015, p.
The old proverb “the Pen is mightier than the sword” (Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu; Or the Conspiracy) still holds significance in protecting of public rights. Words such as freedom, and liberty engendered the idea for democracy. Such words formed into sentences and paragraphs enlightened the public to take action against tyranny and corruption. Freedom of the press is what ensured the general masses of their public rights. The exemplary case in which the freedom of the press played a role was the endeavors of Woodward and Bernstein to unravel the corrupted politics behind the Watergate Scandal. The movie All the President’s Men depicts the proceedings of the Watergate scandal, the scheme to attack the crux of democracy: “ the open election”. Also how the two journalists of the Washington Post progressed to unveil the relationship between the Watergate Burglary and the White House. On one hand, the movie represents the role of the media in its obligation to convey the truth to the masses. On the other hand, the movie reflects political corruption and conspiracy. The accomplishment of Woodward and Bernstein presents the importance of the interaction between the media, the government, and the general masses of society. The role of the media is not only to intervene between the State and the public, but also to take account of public ideas and to apply those ideas to new policies. Also, the media acts as a safeguard to prevent the corruption of the State. Thus, the Watergate scandal signifies the significance of the media as an intermediary between the government and the public mass.
the front page, it also has 1 or 2 images on the front page and
News stories are covered several times and most of us do not even realize it. Although more recently many people get news in more similar mediums such as on the Internet because of the decline of newspapers. “Since 1940, the total number of daily newspapers has dropped more than 21 percent” (McIntosh and Pavlik, 119). Many times we do not realize the same story we read online was covered on our local news station and in our local newspaper, even further than that this same story is being covered in many different news stations, newspapers, and news sites all over the country and even the world. So what makes these stories different? Each time you read a news story from a different source something different happens to it. The different views and frames used by the source gives the reader a different take every time. I saw that first hand in my two stories. In my project I compared the same story of Mya Lyons, a nine year old girl who was stabbed to death.
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